Aaron Watson has seen his share of pain.
In fact, as the son of a disabled Vietnam war veteran, the West Texas native spent many a day as a young man going to the VA hospital with his dad, witnessing the plight of men and women who proudly fought for this country, men and women left to deal with the physical and mental leftovers of war. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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It s a vision he still can t get out of his head. The hardship that this country has been through has always been in my face, admits the self-made country music sensation in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. This world has been through hard times, time and time and time again.
Funky Boombox The Rolling Stones Got More Soul Share
The British Invasion of The 1960s was fueled by American R&B of the 1950s. Like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones borrowed heavily from American Soul artists for many of their early recordings. Their fist album includes just one song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The album includes songs originally recorded by Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, Rufus Thomas and Marvin Gaye, The Stones continued to tap into the R & B song book through out their careers recording songs like the Temptations Ain’t Too Proud to Beg and Going To A Go Go from Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.
Soul Train Awards S2020 | Exclusive | 09:42 Aired 12-30-2020
Marco De Santiago, who was on Soul Train from 1976 to 1992, talks about his nerve-racking audition and reveals why he wasn t a fan of the iconic dance line.
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Soul Train Awards S2020 | Exclusive | 08:50 Aired 12-23-2020
Terrell Ferguson recalls how roller-skating in Venice Beach, CA, led to a shot on Soul Train, who inspired his groovy moves and how being a dancer on the show gave him legitimacy.
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There is little doubt about social media’s influence on American popular culture. It influences our culture and our language including how we advocate, call to act, and use language to influence the behavior of others or silence them altogether. This behavior has come to be known as cancel and callout culture. On this episode of Pop Life, host Joe Lee visits with Charisse L’Pree, Syracuse University Associate Professor of Communications and author of
20th Century Media and the American Psyche: A Strange Love, to talk about cancel culture’s impact on pop culture entertainment.
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